Tony Alfrey wrote:
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 02:08 am, Peter Evans wrote: <snip>
We do occasionally have power cuts, and cleaners and others in this building occasionally unplug things.
<snip>
Take the advice of the others on the list and, regardless of what filesystem you're running or learning how to run fsck, spend the money (not that much I might add) on a UPS. Running fsck after a power failure, especially if your box was in the middle of some process, can be a little scarey. It virtually always works and has saved me from quite a mess (before I got the UPS), but the UPS is really failsafe and if you get one of those UPS from APC, it supports linux and will even 'halt' your box for you.
on this note...I recently used an MGE UPS for a linux box and it worked great. The UPS software for linux was an RPM, very easy to install. My worst experience setting up UPS software to communicate with a unix box was a few years back....APC software on an HP-UX 10.20....That was a pain in the a**!!! good luck, Oskar